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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A TREASURE OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES Ihl /•:. r. /)'. h'a.s.srtl IN I'.KII. Ml', .lacol) 11. SchilV dimMlcd fmids to tlic Aiiici-icaii Mnsciiiii tor making invcstijiatioiis and collections in ( liina, the adminis- tration of these funds heinji' entrusted to a committee ortjanized imder tli( auspices of the Museum with the late Morris 1\. .lesup as chairman. The work was placed in the hands of Dr. Herthold Laufer, who had just completed work as a meniher of the .lesiip North I'aciHc Ivxpedition to Eastern SiKeria. Dr. Laufer spent the three years from 1001 to litOl in ( hina am! the collection thus oWtained is now in the Museum's ( hinese Hall in the west win<;- of the huildinj;-, wiiile a letter recently received from Dr. Laufer, calls attention to its j^nvatly increased value. He says in fact that after a diligent search in < hina he has been unable to make anotlu-r collection of equal importance. His studies of this collection of bronzes appeared in MIOO in a report of the East Asiatic Committee of the Jacob H. Schiff Chinese Expedi- tion.' This was published in Leyden because of the facilities there alVorrled in the way of Chinese type. Among the specimens in the ( hinese Hall there are two absolutely unicpie collections, the ancient Chinese bronzes and certain mortuary pottery of the Han period. Becau.se of their relation to each other antl to modern art, they have much the same interpretative value to East Asiatic study that the pre-Homeric or Minoan collections have to (ireek art. The history of China has charm be- causeof its anticpiity, its unparalleled con- tinuitv and the sur\i\al of its culture.
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THE OLDEST AMONG THE MUSEUMS CHINESE BRONZES Hroii/.c libation cup used in ancestor worship Sluinti Dynasty (1TG(>-1122 n. C\). Tliis bronze ve.sst'l must liavo tal»ty. By Bcrthold Laufer. Pulilished h\- K. J. Brill. Leyden. 1*100. I?oi)ort of the Kast Asiatic Committoo of the .Jacob H. Schilf Chinese Expedition. 59

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